Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.